{"id":275244,"date":"2025-10-03T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:42:16","slug":"rapist-restaurateur-alberto-nicoletti-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-woman-he-drove-home-from-south-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275244\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapist restaurateur Alberto Nicoletti jailed for sexually assaulting woman he drove home from South Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Perth restaurateur and serial sex abuser has been sentenced for raping a woman he offered a lift to as she headed home from a pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\"><strong>WARNING: This article contains details some readers may find distressing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sexual assault\u00a0support lines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Alberto Nicoletti, who is already in jail for sexually assaulting two other women, was given a three-year sentence in the District Court on Friday, to be served on top of his other sentences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Judge Gary Massey said the 33-year-old was not remorseful and had shown &#8220;a complete lack of regard&#8221; for his victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Nicoletti raped the woman when she was passed out in her home in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rapist complimented victim<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The court heard the victim, who was in her early 20s, had been drinking at a South Perth hotel, and tried walking to a car park to order an Uber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But she was &#8220;as drunk as I had ever been&#8221;, she told the court, and stumbled as she walked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Nicoletti, who had finished work at his Lago Di Como restaurant for the evening, helped her up and complimented her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He offered to drive her home and followed her inside after they arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up photo of a man holding a pizza box open standing next to another person.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/efd8cd87a540cb8054cb8e9f00bde8a1\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Nicoletti&#8217;s latest sentence relates to rape of a woman he drove home from South Perth in 2020. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The woman said she woke up to find Nicoletti having sex with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">She started crying and told him to get off and leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stress, trauma, fear&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement read out by the prosecutor in court, the woman said she suffered ongoing &#8220;stress, trauma and fear&#8221;, causing flashbacks and nightmares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I dream of the life I had before Alberto Nicoletti made the decision to rape me,&#8221; she said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Exterior of the District Court of Western Australia on a sunny day.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d4b1a0017fc2936f7c3413b4027ec5a3\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The sentencing hearing took place in the District Court of WA in Perth. (ABC News: Jack Stevenson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It was Nicoletti&#8217;s third conviction, having been sentenced in 2024 to five years and six months for convictions for digital penetration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One of those crimes occurred in his restaurant car park in 2016, while the other was at a Northbridge bar in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The three years imposed by Judge Massey means Nicoletti&#8217;s total sentence is eight years and six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will be eligible for parole in February 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Perth restaurateur and serial sex abuser has been sentenced for raping a woman he offered a lift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100356,142390,4740,100357,50,8634,8631,142391,100360,8633,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-275244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberto-nicoletti","9":"tag-alberto-nicoletti-sentencing","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-lago-di-como","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-perth-courts","14":"tag-perth-news","15":"tag-perth-rape","16":"tag-south-perth-rape","17":"tag-wa-courts","18":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115311709099044169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}